David Foster Wallace died a little more than a year ago. It's a good time to revisit Garth's excellent piece written shortly after Wallace's death. More recently, No Pun Intended published a long reflection on Wallace.

Over at The Atlantic, Lydia Millet argues for the power and legitimacy of The Lorax's moral message. Millet believes that the heavy-handedness of activist-minded fiction like The Lorax is powerful partly due to "its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve."